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- Darwin and the God of Love
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For millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main drama of human being`s relationship to God. What value does the natural world have within the framework of religious belief? The crisis of biodiversity in our day, when species are going extinct at more than 1,000 times the natural rate, renders this question acutely important. Standard perspectives need to be realigned; theology needs to look out of the window, so to speak as well as in the mirror. Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love leads to the conclusion that love of the natural world is an intrinsic element of faith in God and that far from being an add-on, ecological care is at the centre of moral life.
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The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield material well-being. But while cultural pessimism is always fashionable, there is still much to give us hope.
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Mostly thoughts on religious things
- By Adam Shields on 01-26-16
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- By: Charles Eisenstein
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
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Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. He argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them. It has fired our near-pathological pursuit of technological Utopias even as we push ourselves and our planet to the brink of collapse.
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- By Tamara Smith on 12-03-17
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The Heretic's Handbook
- By: Jonathan Black
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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In The Heretic’s Handbook, the internationally bestselling author of The Secret History of the World has collected and codified ancient, secret wisdom from around the world, formulating a complete philosophy on how to live a happy and successful life. An acclaimed author and public speaker, Black shows how this body of knowledge has been declared ‘heretical’ both by the established church and by today’s atheistic intellectual elite.
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- By Amazon Customer on 08-01-23
By: Jonathan Black
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Knowing Christ Today
- Why We Can Trust Spiritual Knowledge
- By: Dallas Willard
- Narrated by: David Cochran Heath
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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At a time when popular atheism books are talking about the irrationality of believing in God, Willard makes a rigorous intellectual case for why it makes sense to believe in God and in Jesus, the Son.
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Logical to a fault
- By cynthia on 05-13-10
By: Dallas Willard
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God and the Evolving Universe
- The Next Step in Personal Evolution
- By: James Redfield, Michael Murphy, Sylvia Timbers
- Narrated by: Chris Ryan
- Length: 7 hrs
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In God and the Evolving Universe, James Redfield and Michael Murphy present an important message of hope and a vision for the future. The authors contend that thousands of years of human striving have delivered us to this very moment, in which each act of self-development is creating a new stage in planetary evolution and the emergence of a human species possessed of vastly expanded spiritual experience.
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higher is better
- By Tommie on 04-20-07
By: James Redfield, and others
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Evolution
- The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
- By: Edward J. Larson
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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Edward J. Larson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and eminent science historian. This marvelously readable, yet sumptuously erudite work traces the development of the scientific theory of evolution. From Darwin's essential trip to the Galápagos, to the most contemporary studies in sociobiology, this work takes listeners both into the field and laboratories of the world's greatest evolutionary scientists, and shows how the theory of evolution has itself evolved.
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An Excellent History!
- By Bradly D. Elder on 08-13-07
By: Edward J. Larson
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The Divine Dance
- The Trinity and Your Transformation
- By: Richard Rohr
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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The Trinity is supposed to be the central doctrine grounding Christianity, yet we're often told that we shouldn't attempt to understand it because it's a mystery. But what if we breached that mystery? How might it transform our relationship with God?
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Phenomenal!
- By Garrison G. Schrauger on 01-22-18
By: Richard Rohr
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Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians
- Finding Authentic Faith in a Forgotten Age with C.S. Lewis
- By: Chris R. Armstrong
- Narrated by: Jon Gauger
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Many Christians today tend to view the story of medieval faith as a cautionary tale. Too often, they dismiss the Middle Ages as a period of corruption and decay in the church. They seem to assume that the church apostatized from true Christianity after it gained cultural influence in the time of Constantine, and that the faith was only later recovered by the 16th-century Reformers or even the 18th-century revivalists. As a result, the riches and wisdom of the medieval period have remained largely inaccessible to modern Protestants.
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A splendid introduction to Medieval faith from an Evangelical perspective
- By Daniel on 03-07-20
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On Augustine
- By: Rowan Williams
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Since his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury and his return to academic life (Master of Magdalene College Cambridge), Rowan Williams has demonstrated a massive new surge of intellectual energy. In this new audiobook, he turns his attention to St Augustine. St Augustine not only shaped the development of Western theology, he also made a major contribution to political theory ( The City of God) and, through his Confessions, to the understanding of human psychology.
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thoughtful take.
- By Michael McGuire on 04-17-22
By: Rowan Williams
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- J. Williams
- 01-10-19
Possibly the most important book I have read since I first fell in love with Jesus
This is a book for our time. If the perspectives here, the beautiful understanding of God’s love enfolding our beautiful, painful world and all its creatures, this book with its strong scriptural basis... if all that was was more commonplace, I think the exodus of scientifically-minded young adults would be largely staunched. I wish I had come across this book ten years ago in my crisis of faith of young adulthood. My upbringing and church alike both insisted there was no room for a loving, caring God and an evolutionary and deep time perspective on the world. But the evidence all around me, the rocks and creatures seemed to cry out that their stories were not written a mere six thousand years ago. My agony was thinking that if I accepted evolution I had to give up my reality of relationship with a personal God. Years later I still pray daily and yet accept the evidence out there, but the journey was hard, painful, intensely lonely and so shaking to my faith. This book does so much of what I consider very difficult work if you’re starting from scratch like I was. I was the kid asking the pastor if animals go to heaven, and if so, just pets or also the poor roadkilled opossum outside. The views here are just as scripturally sound as other interpretations, and of great importance, they are actually compatible with a healthy concern for our environment and an understanding of the evidence out there regarding life’s long and entangled journey to this present time. There is no worship of nature as deity here nor shoehorning of spiritual ideas into scientific territory. In some sections, multiple schools of thought and their benefits and drawbacks are discussed. You won’t see God reduced to an impersonal clockmaker who lets the universe run. The Incarnation of Jesus is not denied; indeed it is absolutely central. I had tears of joy running down my face multiple times as I listened to this book and the deep spiritual longings and worries in my heart were finally given harmonious possible paradigms in a way that both made sense and in no way contradicted my understanding of science nor my love for Jesus Himself.
At first I wondered if the reading performance was a computer; she was so consistent and crisp in her diction, but she was real I realized by the end, as I caught lilts of expression in her voice.
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- Thinker "glo"
- 04-11-17
Interested
I think I am going back and try to find the Origin by Darwin. This book made want to read it. Never thought about read it before......
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- D. Martin
- 07-21-24
excellent synthesis
This book was an excellent synthesis of both the scientific and theological justifications for ecological preservation. At times it was very dense, and I could only listen in small doses. But it was very thought-provoking and I highly recommend it. It may be of particular interest to Christians who believe in the "seamless garment" approach to the preserving dignity of life, but the information is useful to anyone.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-25-16
Enlightened!
Love is the only word that works...
theologic wisdom, well communicated and inspiring. Thank you. thank you.
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